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spicuously veined lance- .late leave-, which turn blwMi black in 

 drying, and loose trichot< >m<>us c\ im -s M|" white ? tl- 

 (corolla tube 3 lines, lobes 4 lines long ; Monrovia, //"//: 



Coffea liberica. A'//// ex Ilicrn: the "Liberia Coffee," similar to the 

 common Coffee, but taller (to over 2O ft. high) with 1 

 leaves and !ar-rr black berries . ,f the si/e of a chcfiy J in 

 nous around Monrovia according to Vogel, cultivated at Cape 

 1 'almas, / ',^v/, 63 ! 



C. nudiflora, .S'A///': a deciduous shrub with whitish or i;re\Ni 

 branches, axillary solitary or paired white flowers, in the mature 

 bud in. long, produced before the leaves, and red bcrrie^ : 

 Monrovia and Sinn Basin, \\'hytc\ 



C. ligustrifolia, Staff: an evergreen shrub with divaricate rigid 

 branches, lanceolate leaves, 3j 5 in. by ii 2 in., and axillary 

 solitary or paired white flowers, in the mature bud I in. long ; 

 Kakatown and Sino Basin, Whyte\ 



Rutidea parviflora, DC. : a very hairy climber with papery or 

 membranous leaves, clusters of white flowers (J in. long) usually 

 arranged in slender drooping panicles, and yellow berries ; 

 Monrovia, Kakatown, and Sino Basin, Whyte \ ; Cape Palmas, 

 / 'ogel, 26 ! 39 ! 



R. smithii, Ilicm : a more or less pubescent shrub with obovatc mem- 

 branous leaves, 3 4 in. by i 2 in., and pyramidal often dense 

 panicles of whitish flowers with re flexed corolla lobes and ex- 

 serted anthers; Kakatown, \VJiy tc\ 



Morinda longiflora, G. Don. : a glabrous rambling or scandent shrub 

 with slender branches, coriaceous lanceolate to elliptic acuminate 

 leaves, freely flowering, with heads of fragrant tubular white- 

 flowers, 2 in. long, and deep orange-coloured berry-heads, with 

 the berries connate ; Monrovia, Whyte \ 



Psychotria calva, Ilicm : a glabrous shrub with pale green papery 

 lanceolate to oblong leaves, panicles or corymbs of small white 

 (lowers, J in. long, and red berries ; Sino Basin, \Vhytc ! 



P. bidentata, I Hern : a glabrous shrub with thinly coriaceous lan- 

 ceolate to elliptic leaves, drooping panicles, made up of a few 

 dense clusters of more or less sessile white flowers, ] in. long, 

 and with whitish berries ; Grand Basa, Vogel, 40 ! 



P. vogeliana, Benth. : a shrub with membranous elliptic-lanceolate 

 acute many-nerved leaves, 38 in. by ii 3 in., and peduncled 



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